"...There is a reason Occupy Wall Street advocates nonviolence: it works... Black
bloc is black bloc, not Occupy Wall Street. Two different groups... So,
on one hand we have Cops Gone Wild, and on the other hand we have Black
Bloc Gone Wild. Why don’t they get together and do a reality TV show
and leave the Occupy movement out of it so Occupy can get some work
done?" --I couldn't agree more, although I don't like the article's title much:
http://blog.sfmoma.org/2012/02/why-is-occupy-oakland-so-crazy-2/
Here you'll find occasionally updated links to good reporting, interviews, and commentary on currently important subjects--hopefully useful, newsworthy, and real. Real news--for real, people!
Friday, May 25, 2012
Thursday, May 17, 2012
Example: Demands of a People's Movement
Bobby Seale explains the Ten-Point Program:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPP0hiLuxdQ&feature=related
Harvard Business School talks "RUNAWAY CAPITALISM"
Look, I'm only as brilliant and dense as the next fool, but even Harvard's Business School is talking about how American capitalism is wrecking itself:
http://hbr.org/2012/01/runaway-capitalism/ar/1
http://hbr.org/2012/01/runaway-capitalism/ar/1
Thursday, May 10, 2012
Michelle Alexander on Colbert
Michelle Alexander (author, The New Jim Crow) was on the Colbert Report May 8--she was ON-POINT, especially her final comments:
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-may-8-2012-michelle-alexander
http://www.colbertnation.com/full-episodes/tue-may-8-2012-michelle-alexander
Friday, May 4, 2012
May Day March for Dignity and Resistance!
Two strong accounts from a local online "newspaper".
With some slight 'background' discrepancies, this account is accurate from my own perspective as a participant in the march. The comments are a good read, too:
http://oaklandlocal.com/article/how-occupied-oakland-co-opted-citys-historic-immigrant-rights-march-reflection
Here's another report, mainly accentuating the positive:
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/05/oakland-may-day-march-brings-out-thousands-advocate-immigrant-rights-community-voices
With some slight 'background' discrepancies, this account is accurate from my own perspective as a participant in the march. The comments are a good read, too:
http://oaklandlocal.com/article/how-occupied-oakland-co-opted-citys-historic-immigrant-rights-march-reflection
Here's another report, mainly accentuating the positive:
http://oaklandlocal.com/posts/2012/05/oakland-may-day-march-brings-out-thousands-advocate-immigrant-rights-community-voices
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